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The Star Trek: Discovery Cast Sings an Ode to Nerds in an Out of This World Rent Parody

Nerds: they’re what makes the world go round. Well, the smart ones do, while the rest of us just watch lots of Star Trek. The cast of Discovery—specifically the absurdly multi-talented quartet of Sonequa Martin-Green, Mary Wiseman, Anthony Rapp, and Doug Jones—took part in the latest episode of Carpool Karaoke this week, and while the…

io9 James Whitbrook Feb 4

The Tortured Case for Deleting Instagram

There are a lot of reasons to delete Facebook. The company has been violating your privacy and secretly giving away your data for years. Last year, in particular, was a bad one for the company. Still, it’s easy to forget, when thumbing through its endless stream of glamorous images, how one beloved app is a…

Social Media Adam Clark Estes Feb 4

Is Permatripping Real?

For decades, every town had its spin on the story: the distant cousin or friend of a friend who took a bunch of acid and never came down from their trip. Rumor had it that many of these people were consigned to state asylums, unshakably convinced that they’d morphed into tall, precariously balanced glasses of…

Tech News Daniel Kolitz Feb 4

The Black Widow Movie Could Start Filming Sooner Than You’d Think

Nintendo gives an update on when to expect Illumination’s Super Mario Bros. movie. Sarah Michelle Gellar says she’s not involved with the Buffy reboot in any way. The CW wants to keep its DC universe going as long as possible. Plus, what’s to come on Supernatural’s 300th episode. Spoilers, assemble! Black Widow According to HN…

Television James Whitbrook & Gordon Jackson Feb 4

17 New Features Your Favorite Apps Added While You Weren’t Looking

It can be hard to keep up with all the features being added to all the apps you’ve got on your phone—which is why we’ve pulled together this rundown of recently added or particularly obscure features you might not have noticed in the apps you use every day. From staying safe in an Uber to…

Gadgets David Nield Feb 4

Last Call: Flickr Starts Deleting Your Old Photos on March 12 [Updated]

Update: Flickr has extended the deadline to March 12. See below for more details. Flickr, one of the best social media services of the 2000s, will begin mass deleting photos tomorrow, February 5. If you’d like to keep any of the photos that you uploaded to the service and maybe forgot about, now is the…

Tech News Matt Novak Feb 4

The Latest Sneak Peek at Toy Story 4 Shows How Big the World Is for a Toy

The last Toy Story may have ended with Andy’s favorite toys getting a new, loving home, but the latest peek at Toy Story 4 shows the next adventure may be a lot bigger than Bonnie’s backyard. Disney debuted a sneak peek at Pixar’s Toy Story 4 during the Super Bowl today. Previously teased on Twitter…

Movies Beth Elderkin Feb 3

‘Super’ Sci-Fi Sports, Blocking Tech Giants, and the Worst Planet: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

It’s Super Bowl Sunday! There will be drinking (if you partake)! And wings (also if you partake)! And fervid screaming about sports! It’s one of the biggest of days of the year for many sports fans. But reader, if this isn’t you, no worries. Around here we know “super” pairs best with sci-fi, and this…

Tech News Catie Keck Feb 3

Twilight Zone‘s First Teaser Trailer Will Make You Question Reality

You’re entering the vicinity of an area adjacent to the Superb Owl. The kind of place where there might be some sports, or some sort of weird advertisements. These are just examples. It could also be something much better, like Jordan Peele inviting you to follow him into the CBS’s new Twilight Zone. It remains to…

Television Charles Pulliam-Moore Feb 3

A New Captain Marvel TV Spot Wants to Take You Higher, Further, Faster

That’s how Carol Danvers has always done it. Our latest look at Captain Marvel just dropped courtesy of the trailer marathon/American football game that is the Super Bowl LIII. There’s not that much new to the spot, aside from continuing to fill us in on Carol’s twisty-turny backstory as she chases memories of a life…

Movies James Whitbrook Feb 3

The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3 Looks Grim as Hell

Just when you thought The Handmaid’s Tale couldn’t get darker, welcome to season 3. The first look at the upcoming season debuted during the Super Bowl and here’s your first look. Of course, the last season ended with June (Elizabeth Moss) giving up a chance to escape in order to go back to her captors…

Trailers Germain Lussier Feb 3

Crypto Exchange Says It Can’t Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password

Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX says it cannot repay most of $190 million in client holdings after its 30-year-old founder Gerald Cotten, the only person who knew the passwords to its “cold storage,” unexpectedly died in India in December 2018, Coindesk reported on Friday. In a sworn affidavit with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court, widow Jennifer…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 3

New Avengers: Endgame Footage Already Won the Super Bowl

The biggest movie during last year’s Super Bowl was Avengers: Infinity War. And so Earth’s Mightiest Heroes had to come back for 2019, right? Well, half of them at least. Yes, fresh off being snapped out of existence, new footage from Avengers: Endgame just premiered ahead of tonight’s big game. Check it out. In retrospect,…

Movies Germain Lussier Feb 3

Small Plane Crashes in California’s Yorba Linda, Setting Fire to Home

A small plane on Sunday crashed into a residential area in Yorba Linda, a city in California’s Orange County. Video shared to Twitter by an individual who said they were a resident of the area appeared to show the scene of the crash, with a home totally engulfed in flames as residents in the area…

Tech News Catie Keck Feb 3

Temporal Anomaly is a Star Trek Fan Film Half a Decade in the Making

First conceived and pitched to Kickstarter backers in 2013, Temporal Anomaly is an ambitious fan project set in the Star Trek universe, a nearly hour-long fan film created by Power543 Fan Films. Set at a nexus in time, colliding the past and future of Star Trek, this ambitious production makes use of the same special…

io9 Julie Muncy Feb 3

Security Sets Man on Fire With ‘Taser-Style Device’ in Philadelphia

A “Taser-style device” set a man’s clothing on fire on South Street in Philadelphia early Saturday morning after a security guard attempted to stun him, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported this weekend. Details on the incident are limited, but a video posted to Twitter shows that the man’s pants caught fire after an electroshock weapon was…

Tech News Tom McKay Feb 3

WWI Hand Grenade Found Among Potato Shipment at Chip Factory in Hong Kong

A hand grenade that authorities say is from World War I turned up unexpectedly at a potato chip factory at an industrial estate in Hong Kong last week, the South China Morning Post reported Saturday. The grenade is thought to have originated in France before being shipped to a Calbee snack factory in Hong Kong,…

Tech News Catie Keck Feb 3

Wonder Park’s New Trailer Raises Even More Questions About Its Eponymous Theme Park

When Wonder Park, the embattled Paramount and Nickelodeon animated film, released its first trailer, we had some concerns. Now, we have even more. The original question, which still stands, is: how does the theme park in this movie (which may or may not actually be named Wonder Park) get its denizens? The whole thing seems…

Trailers Julie Muncy Feb 3

Jim Lee Takes Aquaman’s Black Manta and Brings Him Back to the Page

The design for Black Manta in the Aquaman movie was, especially for comics films, remarkably close to his drawn counterpart, capturing his silhouette and outfit rather effectively. Even still, it’s neat to see Jim Lee take that design and turn it back into a piece of comic book art. In a “down and dirty sketch” Lee…

Movies Julie Muncy Feb 3

Google Yanks 29 Malicious Photo Apps From Play Store, But Not Before Millions of Downloads

Google yanked some 29 photo apps from the Play Store this week after they were discovered to have malicious code that pushes full-screen ads, steals information from users by tricking them into believing they have won a contest, and in some cases even lifted photos from devices to send to the malware designers behind the…

Privacy & Security Tom McKay Feb 3

The Star Trek: Discovery Cast Sings an Ode to Nerds in an Out of This World Rent Parody

The Tortured Case for Deleting Instagram

Is Permatripping Real?

The Black Widow Movie Could Start Filming Sooner Than You’d Think

17 New Features Your Favorite Apps Added While You Weren’t Looking

Last Call: Flickr Starts Deleting Your Old Photos on March 12 [Updated]

The Latest Sneak Peek at Toy Story 4 Shows How Big the World Is for a Toy

‘Super’ Sci-Fi Sports, Blocking Tech Giants, and the Worst Planet: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Twilight Zone‘s First Teaser Trailer Will Make You Question Reality

A New Captain Marvel TV Spot Wants to Take You Higher, Further, Faster

The Handmaid’s Tale Season 3 Looks Grim as Hell

Crypto Exchange Says It Can’t Repay $190 Million to Clients After Founder Dies With Only Password

New Avengers: Endgame Footage Already Won the Super Bowl

Small Plane Crashes in California’s Yorba Linda, Setting Fire to Home

Temporal Anomaly is a Star Trek Fan Film Half a Decade in the Making

Security Sets Man on Fire With ‘Taser-Style Device’ in Philadelphia

WWI Hand Grenade Found Among Potato Shipment at Chip Factory in Hong Kong

Wonder Park’s New Trailer Raises Even More Questions About Its Eponymous Theme Park

Jim Lee Takes Aquaman’s Black Manta and Brings Him Back to the Page

Google Yanks 29 Malicious Photo Apps From Play Store, But Not Before Millions of Downloads

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